legally speakn, there is a commonly term used "bad faith".. this is where DOS/USCIS falls in right now. Read the document, the y did not break any law, what they did was in "Bad Faith" ,. Cant make it clearer than this...

You have the prove 2 things This "bad faith" was illegal and it caused harm & damages.

Winning a case in court and being emotionally charged are two different things.

__________________ Not a legal advice.

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andy garcia

01-25 10:39 AM

And hoping that some more data, some more pointers, and some more information comes out of this thread, before it dies.

Data and estimates and links to websites needed for estimating when a PD would become current.

THis are the number of visas issued for each fiscal year since FY 2000 for the EB preference. They are under this link:DOS Visa Statistics (http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/statistics/statistics_1476.html)

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sri1309

09-11 07:48 AM

I am in for this. Is this something that can be a planned effort rather than a impulsive exercise?

I think we should - 1) Wait till this session of the Congress gets over. 2) Form a work group that will chalk out the plan (of efforts). 3) Execute the planned efforts.

Efforts could include things like - 1) Discussing the proposal with supporting Senators like Zoe Lofgren. 2) Making conscious efforts to publicize our woes and genuine issues / conditions. 3) Quantify the benefits of our presence - in evidence of a quantified evidence, idiots like Loo Dog, etc. can't refute that much. 4) Talk to organizations like Lazaras (or some org.) form a more cosmopolitan group including Chinese and others as well. 5) Letter campaign in mass to all Congressmen's offices telling them the sad story about waiting for 8-10 years. 6) Any other efforts that CORE comes up with.

It can be planned effort easily if Core team supports us. Otherwise, all of us will be airing our views, but where will the strength come. Even if 50-100 people join hands here, thats not a good #. We need a very big #. Thats possible if a campaign is started by somebody like IV and list it in the headlines section and direct us all to a target. How do I create a new thread, pls let me know. Lets wait for 5882, not upset any one.. Once thats done, based on outcome, its Lets shoot for Citizenship.

Thanks, Sri.

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ramaonline

08-21 12:54 PM

The I485 Supplement A is for 245 i which means you had to be present in the US in the year 2000. Since you never entered the US until 2003 it does not look like this form is required in your case. Please call the USCIS customer service number to confirm this.

Before suing the USCIS, we should inform USCIS of our intentions. My idea is like this -

- Draft a letter highlighting the Statues and Rules (we can seek Attorneys help) regarding the Quarterly spill-over - IV members/non-members would send their electronic signatures - We would stick signatures in the electronic document - Print this huge(hope it will be) document and deliver personally to DHS/USCIS executive officers

Any suggestions or changes are welcome.

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sanjaymk

07-16 05:02 PM

Following up on the NYTimes article about the NumbersUSA group, I visited their website and saw that they have a free FAX program where they can easily send faxes to their senators.

One of their fax letters is below, which is a complete mis-representation of truth - look at point #2.

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Dear [This fax will go to Your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representative ]

I oppose any increase in the annual H-1B visa cap, including those in the SKIL Act. I am counting on you to oppose it.

Here are just a few reasons why I hope you will oppose the SKIL Act:

(1) The six-year visas allow foreign workers to bring in their families, and guarantee thousands of anchor babies.

(2) H-1B salaries are tax-exempt - no FICA, no federal or state income taxes. They can live at the same level as tax-paying Americans at a lower cost. Therefore, Congress allows foreigners to "low-ball" American workers.

(3) H-1Bs can leave the job they came to fill and seek other jobs, not necessarily in the "hard to fill" category.

(4) Most H-1Bs are of a "protected" ethnic group, so H-1Bs have an affirmative action preference when competing with Americans for the same jobs.

The result of the SKIL Act would be to further depress the wages of Americans working in high-tech and scientific fields and to cause additional job displacement for those workers.

Sincerely, [Your Name Will Appear Here]

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Is there any way we could let the senators know that this is complete lie, misinformation and mis-representation of facts?. We should also let the senators know that the credibility of these organizations are questionable and following the news/faxes from these organizations would in turn put the credibility of these senators at a BIG RISK. We also should let the senators know that these groups are artificially "hiking" up the count by sending in duplicate faxes.

Also, I recommend creating a similar page in IV website, where we can have an automated 1-2-3 STEP fax facility where we can automatically fax a letter to senators. It should be as simple as selecting the state and pressing the Send Fax button. Please let me know if you need any programming help from me.

I am sure this topic will come up again and again when new members join. We recently had quite a few (over a thousand) new members join IV and as the word gets around, there will be even more interest in IV and new members/non-members will visit the site and ask questions. I don't think we should expect everyone (new or old members) to know everything that was discussed in this forum from day one. That's not practical.

Every few days I see a new thread that is asking for information on how to change from EB3 to EB2. There are literally hundred or so threads that talks about this issue yet still new threads pop up regularly asking the same info. This is bound to happen and can't be stopped.

If you know that a topic has been covered somewhere, making a link available would be very helpful. If you think that a certain topic is brought up on a regular basis, may be we should make that thread sticky or have that information on homepage or somewhere where it's easily accessible.

We can always argue that members can do their own search on the forum. While that's true, if we know the answer and can quickly make that available to members, I think we'll be doing a service to our members. Just a thought.

All , this subject has been raised very often and every time new members join in they start a thread and start questioning it.

- IV has indepth explored and studied this option and have found that this change is not possible administratively. - we have not just met a lawyer. we have met few lawyers. we also have communicated with USCIS in the past. - In the past some administrative changes have been done by USCIS, but this change cannot be done by them. All, we already had this idea long long ago and we also thought that why dont we do it if it so simple and then we dont have to go through all the legislative hurdles. But NO it cannot be done by USCIS. - Faxing USCIS will not work. USCIS does not take policy decisions. We need to approach policy makers to get it done and that is what we are doing. By coming up with ideas, endlessly discussing despite explaination by IV and not working with IV action items we will all go in divergent directions and lose focus on the main action items we want each every member should focus. If you really feel for some idea and want to help, instead of asking IV to give explanation to every question on the forum, contact any of the active IV core members on the forum and bounce ideas. We need people with ideas and also same people willing to work on them too. - If it was possible to get it done administratively, then in the current Skil bill push we would have/ and lawmakers would also have just asked USCIS to implement it.

Hope this explains this topic. Thanks

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nomi

12-12 04:09 PM

I think, we should arrange meeting with DOS and USCIS and ask them about all possible solution of this problem.

We should find DOS and USCIS main offices first and then ask IV member who live in those States can contact them and arrange meeting and bring this issues on table with DOS and USCIS Official.

There is nothing to lose by doing this but lot ot gain if we came with some solution. May be there are some ways or something under their control where they can allow us to file for EAD and AP if I-140 approved.

I think this is very important, I asked in the past about it but I got no answer. It would be OK for me to buy a bunch of flags (50-100) and maybe get reimbursed for them at the rally if somebody wants one? I get support from anyone?

We need to do this! Any ideas on how to reimburse him? How much would it be? You can PM Core and ask!

Also how are we currently accounting for 245I folks in this model. Do we have good numbers on them ?

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ps57002

08-15 07:07 AM

are color copies necessary. I'm clueless and trust lawyer's office to know..they seem they know what they are doing. I wasn't asked to make copies, just bring in my recent passport (i have 3 old ones...been in this country too long on F-1 etc) and I'm assuming she made color copies..not sure. Is that trouble?

Also do you NEED to submitt ALL your previous stay details on F1 etc and have all docs related to that. They didn't ask me all that, only H1 stuff as I've been in USA for 16 yrs, so it's hard to give everything related to that...

Please advise. I know I will get RFE anyways as I don't have time to get the medical done and will be submitting without that and most likely with a copy of PERM, not actual hard copy, since it won't come on time.

Plz advise....thanks...oh and the fees are? Nervous. lawyer made me make checks payable to USCIS and I see some people sayng "dept of homeland security"...please advise.

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Don't we all dream of getting a GC??? What is stopping you from to DC??? Come & join hands & lets be heard!!!! Go IV!!!

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zigma

12-27 10:21 PM

The requirement for citizenship or GC is because of the Patriot Act. The banks have had to adopt some of the regulations as part of their process. If the person is neither a citizen or PR then the government reuqires other information to ensure security (not very foolproof as most of the people in the mortgage industry are citizens and do not have much knowledge of the difference between a permanent resident alien and a resident alien. You would be surprised to learn of the kind of rules I ran across in a major bank while architecting the application entry part of the mortgage fulfillment system.

Just to shed some light on the mortgage scenario -

Bank of America approved me for a mortgage yesterday - the rep specifically asked for the Citizen/Perm resident question, I told him that I have a valid work visa - he asked what kind - I said H1B. He looked up my credit histoiry and approved me right there. At the end of our 30 minutes long conversation, I asked him to confirm that H1B is not an issue - he confirmed that it wasn't - as long as I have sufficient funds in my acccount, a good cash flow, and a "very good" credit history.

The subprime mortgage industry is on the brink of collapse - due to all those foreclosures. These institutions have had a pretty relaxed lending schemes - especially for the intereset only and no-down payment ARMs.

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sanjeev_2004

06-30 09:33 PM

In my opinion July 9th onward is the best time to send 485 packages to USCIS. But this is only my opinion and understanding and every one is free to do any thing with their own decisions or with help of their attorney.

Most of the time my many decisions didn’t proven to be good in past as for as my GC processing goes. So please take your own decision yourself and dont be stressed.

chanduv23

11-14 10:53 AM

Its kind of a funny situation, and dangerous at the same time. This is a setup for a perfect storm and these idiot "friends" are planning for sunny days ahead. I guess someone forgot to turn on the weather channel, which in this situation is equivalent to "using common sense".

I am sorry to say this but all these "friends" are actually not your friends. Its better to have a wise foe than foolish friends.

Intelligence is about matching the dots and foresee the coming events, which always tend to cast their shadow before they appear. Idiots tend to overlook the dots, and they continue to live in fools paradise. The problem is not the formation of a perfect storm, the problem is most of these "friends" will be caught off-guard, and the ship will take everyone down with them. I wish I knew of a better way to desrcibe the current situation.

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Unfortunately - I would say the entire community is like that. It is very few people who live in reality.

Believe me, everyone thinks Obama will give them a Green card not knowing what is in store.

Economy and job losses - this economy will not spare anyone and one has to be ready for ac21 and ex employer revocation and uscis officer sending denial and filing mtr than celebrating based on thoughts that Obama will give a green card.

Someone suggests - ahh I got EAD so I will get Green card soon, someone suggests I got finger print so I will get Green card soon.

I have seen people saying "My employer loves me and will never fire me - he invited me to play golf with him yesterday".

For those who keep saying "I will go back to my home country" - just look at the other side of the window - there are tons who want to jump this side.